"Kärntner Volksabstimmung, 10. Oktober 1920" postcard
Two men in rural dress shake hands before families of both sides, flanked by a farmer and a rifleman, under a banner quoting Schiller's oath of unity: "Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern". The tell is the borrowed literary oath and the unspecified brotherhood, standing in for any argument about the border.
- Date
- 1920
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Artur Kollitsch (publisher); the card names no party or government sponsor
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Austria
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- First Austrian Republic
- Leader
- Michael Mayr
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Carinthian Plebiscite
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Dr. Franc Sušnik Central Library of Carinthia, Ravne na Koroškem (dLib.si, National and University Library, Ljubljana), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark (Europeana/dLib); published 1920, U.S. public domain
Artur Kollitsch, Kärntner Volksabstimmung, postcard, 1920. Koroška osrednja knjižnica dr. Franca Sušnika, via dLib.si (URN:NBN:SI:IMG-MYSYADCB).
Text on the object
Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr! Kärntner Volksabstimmung 10. Oktober 1920
We want to be a single people of brothers, in no need to part from each other, nor in danger! Carinthian plebiscite 10 October 1920
Blackletter type. The banner text follows Schiller's line "Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr".
